Ministers are believed to be on the verge of a U-turn on their manifesto pledge to halt the spread of subsidised onshore windfarms – on remote Scottish islands, at least.The business secretary, Greg Clark, visited the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles on Monday to ...

.... The CMA had been investigating whether the sector was operating as transparently as it should. It is thought that an insurance policy sold to a consumer following a comparison site search can net that website as much as £60 commission, although payments are rarely disclosed. ...

....The American Chamber of Commerce in Europe has warned that the EU’s plans to take more tax from technology giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon will damage the continent’s economic growth and could lead to a breakdown in cooperation with the US on global tax reform. The European commission, on the prompting of France and Germany, is seeking ways to capture a greater amount of tax from companies that exploit their lack of physical offices in a country to book their profits in low-tax states. ...

....PFI allowed ministers to build public buildings such as schools and hospitals with minimal upfront costs to the Treasury. Given tight budgeting constraints as the UK ran successive deficits throughout the mid 2000s, the deals became a way to commission popular projects without immediately hitting the public purse. ...

....PFI allowed ministers to build public buildings such as schools and hospitals with minimal upfront costs to the Treasury. Given tight budgeting constraints as the UK ran successive deficits throughout the mid 2000s, the deals became a way to commission popular projects without immediately hitting the public purse. ...

.... It also investigates cases of unlicensed labour in the food sector, which is a criminal offence carrying a prison sentence of up to 10 years. The body is also considering a new licensing system for nail bars, after an investigation by the independent anti-slavery commissioner, Kevin Hyland, found a high risk of trafficked Vietnamese migrants being employed in slavery-like conditions. ...

....Their warnings are not enough. The Labour MPs Frank Field and Rachel Reeves, who head the work and pensions and business select committees, have called for an independent commission to examine Britain’s growing debt problem. ...

....The SEC did not respond when asked about that review or whether it triggered the disclosure, but Clayton said in his Wednesday statement that he began reviewing the agency’s cyber risk in May. SEC commissioners did not learn of the breach until recently. ...

.... A French proposal to tax turnover, even if it could attract more support, requires a digital company to be defined. One fears commissioner Pierre Moscovici’s call for “consensus” was made more in hope than expectation. ...

....The EU is pushing ahead with plans to rewrite tax rules for technology companies, aimed at increasing governments’ take from the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon. The European commission is looking at ways to capture tax from companies that may have no offices, shops or other physical presence in a country, but are accruing profits through large numbers of online users or customers. ...

.... Despite spending more, young people today are more likely to live in overcrowded and smaller spaces, and face longer journeys to work – commuting for the equivalent of three days a year more than their parents. The research by Willetts’ intergenerational commission at the Resolution Foundation thinktank also reveals that today’s 30-year-olds are only half as likely to own their own home as their baby boomer parents. ...

....One in 10 said they had used a payday loan company, although for parents aged under 30, this number increased to one in four. The Young Women’s Trust, which commissioned the representative sample of young people, said many of those questioned in the survey also worked extra hours or skipped meals to make their cash stretch to the end of the month. ...

....Field said people in his Birkenhead constituency on the Wirral were being pushed into destitution by the actions of loan sharks and finance companies that heaped extra pain on low income households with sky-high interest charges. He said: “We need a commission to assess the current situation. ...

....The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said this was the second time in two-and-a-half years that it had taken enforcement action against estate agents, and this latest case raised concerns that the sector “does not properly understand the seriousness of anti-competitive conduct and the consequences of breaking competition law”. The six estate agents, all based in the Burnham-on-Sea area of Somerset, had a meeting and agreed to fix their minimum commission rates at 1. ...

....28m) fee for its work, or donate the same amount to charity. On Monday, Tom Moyane, commissioner of SARS, said that the body is to launch legal proceedings against KPMG over reputational damage caused by releasing details of the confidential report it produced for the tax agency. ...